Crude Impact: Oil Companies and the Environment

Posted by admin on July 27th, 2009 and filed under oil companies | 25 Comments »

A Link TV special: The new feature-length documentary Crude Impact directed by James Wood examines how deeply our current existence relies on fossil fuels, and the cost that extracting oil has had on indigenous populations and the environment. Visit www.linktv.org to learn more about a live web chat about the film.

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25 Responses

  1. navazguitar Says:

    At the present rate …
    At the present rate of energy consumption we will soon need 3 planet Earths. The status-quo is unsustainable. Either we do this volunarily, or the entire eco-system will collapse. Which would you prefer?

  2. Surpriseses Says:

    What do you mean we …
    What do you mean we need to consume less?

  3. navazguitar Says:

    It’s very simple, …
    It’s very simple, we need to consume less, a lot less.

  4. eacans Says:

    another credit to …
    another credit to America: Yes We CAN.

  5. gwbushapos Says:

    This is an old …
    This is an old story, 60 Minutes or a NBC news program covered this in 2004.

    No regulation means huge profits… and the with anyone or anything in their way.

  6. elizzzluv Says:

    You know what they …
    You know what they say!
    The stone age didn’t ended bcause we all ran
    out of stones.

    That’s true bollo7 there some dip pockets out
    there and they don’t want to change…

  7. bollo7 Says:

    in panama some guy …
    in panama some guy invented a new fuel called M4 it works on gas cars with no changes need to be made to the car… it has been tested and aproved like 1000 times… but oil companies like this ones, and the us goverment (the owners of the ing monopoly) won’t let the guy sell it cause it will “impact” some pockets… the M4 fuel it’s made of ethanol and a little oil, it would be like 80% cheaper, it won’t harm the enviroment and it’s better for the ing car… read a bit more about it…

  8. Defender2516 Says:

    Yeah, well back in …
    Yeah, well back in the 1940’s I could say the same thing about Germany who killed millions of people and wrecked the entire world either directly or indirectly. I would say quit pointing fingers and judge yourself before you judge someone else.

  9. bollo7 Says:

    USA has done so …
    USA has done so much harm to the world… ther’s no way you people can be forgiven, but the rest of the world is not like you!! so we won’t start a war… please don’t you ever vote for someone who’s last name is bush… EVER AGAIN!!

  10. ENCHUEV450 Says:

    Yea, let’s go back …
    Yea, let’s go back to the old days of cutting wood and burning it to keep warm in those cold long winters and cooking our food. There won’t be a tree left on earth. But that wouldn’t impact the environment would it?

  11. tusuy Says:

    Some people (like …
    Some people (like face) love to say how offensive it is that other countries “hate” the USA but they fail to ‘think’ about why that is, or maybe they think their country shouldn’t be accountable for wrong doings? It’s up to us to change how the world feels about us but we keep choosing that path of their dislike so we can not complain.
    The why other don’t like us is very obvious. Should they really like us for how we destroy their communities and take their chances to survive?

  12. Hellaciousoutlaw Says:

    e85 is the obvious …
    e85 is the obvious answer oil companies fear it. cars that were designed to use only e85 could get over 40mpg

  13. elizzzluv Says:

    Ok! face, i …
    Ok! face, i understand ur point.But I’m also pretty sure that there alternative methods to
    oil and fossil fuels as resourses. But big oil
    companies want to profit anywhere they can find it. So far we’re eslaved to them…
    no matter where they gonna drill.

  14. faceswithin Says:

    no the worst think …
    no the worst think a child can see is there country buying oil from countrys that hate the USA if we don’t drill here in the USA we are going down does any one understand this or are we still voteing in jerks and thinking LA LA till its over

  15. elizzzluv Says:

    As a mother of …
    As a mother of three, the worst think a parent can see is a child to play with tar in
    his/her back yard!!!
    Lord help us…

  16. cherokeeway Says:

    The environment …
    The environment cannot sustain this type of abuse without horrific consequences which come at a cost to the common man.These mega corporation fail to realize that eventually these images will find there way to the public eye. Greed is like terminal cancer, it keeps eating at your very existence until there is nothing left.

  17. DBVPSlayer Says:

    Thank you for …
    Thank you for showing the harm of these greedy corporations with no regard to their world, except for their temporary luxury.

  18. pdrizi89 Says:

    Most people in the …
    Most people in the US do not want to change thier life style to lower consumption/demand of this energy that is killing the enviornment

  19. projectnine6 Says:

    It is great to see …
    It is great to see this information in a public forum in effort to educate. We made a similar video about air pollution control on a factory in downtown Chicago to gain public awareness.

  20. BaphometMassacre Says:

    Your mom touches …
    Your mom touches and kills everything. It’s really sad.

  21. AmericanIdolatry Says:

    Haha!

    Rock on …
    Haha!

    Rock on BaphometMassacre!

  22. BaphometMassacre Says:

    Your mom’s crude …
    Your mom’s crude oil coming from her impacts the environment.

    Ass.

  23. azultntthiago Says:

    …. i don’t like …
    …. i don’t like oil… i’ve seen it’s evils.. it kills everything it thouches …. as mentioned it is toxic …it kills plants, aquatic life , if leaked from a oil tanker it will cause environmental disasaters…. it’s really sad..

  24. LoveTheSupremes Says:

    This is disgusting. …
    This is disgusting. How can anyone watch this without getting sick to their stomach. If you’re not using Texaco products, it doesn’t matter. Oil is used to make an array of plastic items people in 1st worlds use every day. (25%)

  25. britboy527 Says:

    chinas done alot of …
    chinas done alot of bad . over population for one

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